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Old 08-16-2008, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Diuretic View Post
To be fair I think the original post is looking at the issue in a reasonably specific time and place rather than across times and places. It's about the mythology of the "wild West" and not an examination of the European settlement of North America in a broader sense.
To be fair, the massacre & subjugation of Native American Indians, and the exploitation of Blacks and Chinese happened during that time frame.
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